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Your Taxes, Their Wars: How AIPAC Lobbying Dictates US Foreign Policy And Funds Israel’s Endless Wars

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  Your Taxes, Their Wars: How AIPAC Lobbying Dictates US Foreign Policy And Funds Israel’s Endless Wars Israel has got over $300 billion in American aid -  Council on Foreign Relations American Israel Public Affairs Committee ( AIPAC )  is a tax-exempt non-profit group that lobbies for strong pro-Israel policies. AIPAC is the most powerful pro-Israel lobby in the United States.  AIPAC funnels millions of dollars to lawmakers of both major parties to buy their cooperation and support for policies that benefit a foreign government currently committing a genocide. -  Track AIPAC The pro-Israel lobbying group AIPAC, which has opposed efforts at diplomacy with Iran and is applauding the U.S.-led strikes, has delivered $28 million to the campaigns of members of Congress in the 2025–2026 election cycle, according to a Sludge analysis of FEC data, including earmarked PAC contributions.  -  Sludge Use this app to see who's getting AIPAC funds to support Israel'...

AIPAC & Iran: Mapping the Dark Money Controlling US Foreign Policy

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  Follow and Share on Social Media AIPAC & Iran: Mapping the Dark Money Controlling US Foreign Policy Screenshot  AIPAC has flooded Hakeem Jeffries campaign with more than a million dollars in earmarked donations   -  SLUDGE AIPAC PAC operates a website that allows its members to direct donations to AIPAC-endorsed candidates of their choosing. AIPAC processes payments with Democracy Engine, which disburses the funds to the candidates. It was described by  Bloomberg  as a workaround that gives unpopular PACs “a more politically palatable route for directing campaign cash to favored lawmakers.”  —  SLUDGE Follow the money  A Blank Check for Israel and the War with Iran. America did not enter the war with Iran because it was attacked or was about to be attacked. It seems to have entered after concluding that once Israel moved, American involvement would be unavoidable. “We knew that there was going to be an Israeli action. We knew that that ...

Epstein Class funded Senator Tim Sheehy brutalizes Marine veteran for protesting Trump’s Iran war: Follow the money

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  Follow and Share on Social Media Epstein Class funded Senator Tim Sheehy assaults Marine veteran for protesting Trump’s Iran war: Follow the money Senator Tim Sheehy (R‑MT), who beat popular Democratic incumbent Jon Tester in 2024 with the help of $8 million from billionaire Stephen Schwarzman and at least 63 other billionaires and 37 of their immediate family members, who donated about $47 million to Sheehy’s Se nat e race. In the Senate, Sheehy “has become a key ally on tax policies that benefit the wealthy and cosponsored a proposal to eliminate the estate tax,” the authors note. Sheehy has been in the news lately for killing a decades-old solar energy tax credit when his own home uses solar power.  Sheehy helped eject a protester opposed to the Iran War from a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing. The arm of Brian McGinnis, a Marine Corps veteran who was wearing his dress uniform, was stuck behind the door. As Sheehy t...